…data monitoring, surveillance and prediction technologies used in schools are often rolled out without the students’ knowledge, let alone participation. From nursery to university, there are huge amounts of data collected on children and young people, from inside and outside of the educational system.

 

Students are left in the dark whilst their behaviour, identity and search history is collected without their knowledge, and fed back to them in the form of predictive technologies

Kidd, D. (2020, September 28). Predictive futures: The normalisation of monitoring and surveillance in education. Tactical Tech. https://medium.com/@Info_Activism/predictive-futures-the-normalisation-of-monitoring-and-surveillance-in-education-c201e5a75f92